Introductions Say the three things: ● Your name ● What you do (at work) ● A random factoid about you personally Yesterday, I had ducklings raining down onto my balcony...
Deliberate practice • Gladwell[1] et. al. 10 yrs or 10,000 hrs practice to achieve expert performance • But practice must: – be focussed – be goal-directed – stretch your abilities – give continuous feedback – be followed by self-reflection
Simple Design Simple Design is code that: 1.Passes all the tests 2.Is clear, expressive and consistent 3.Duplicates no behaviour or configuration 4.Minimises the number of moving parts
Format • Pair up (self-organise) • We present the kata (problem to be solved) • Focus for one pomodoro (25 mins) • Stop, take 5 min break to: – Demo your code to anyone nearby – Get food or drink – Reflect...
Kata: That's a wrap! • As part of a text editor application, write a function or method that takes: – A string of text (potentially long), and – A number of columns • It returns the same string, with newlines at or before the column length, placed if possible at word boundaries
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